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"Traitor Among Us" plot thread


First of all, apologies if this has been covered already or if the answer is obvious. I couldn't give this movie my full attention through most of it, so I may have missed the explanation.

And with that fun intro out of the way...

What in the hell happened to the whole "Who's the traitor?" thread? This facet of the story played out like this:

1. They discover someone's infiltrated their intranet system and monitoring their progress on their experiments.
2. Soon after, a drug company comes in and confiscates all of their materials.
3. They accuse the new girl of being the one who leaked info of their experiments to the company. She denies it.
4. They hypothesize that the drug company bought out the company holding their grant contract simply to acquire this drug.

So, this mammoth drug company either somehow knows what a tiny group of med school students are working on in some random school and figured out how to access their intranet, all externally, or there really is a person on the inside who is working for/with this company to supply them with this info. The first option is implausible, and if the second is the case, then who the hell was it? They start accusing the girl, she says it's not her, and then the entire idea is forgotten for the rest of the movie. I kept expecting a crazy revelation, like it was the main guy all along, desperate to do something with his work, but ultimately, nada.




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The corporate conspiracy angle was over emphasized for a good part of the film, then just left in the air hanging. It had little impact on the ending. After they concluded it wasn't the new girl and realised that all of their findings were being automatically sent to the drug company via the dummy email account or whatever, it's consequence was totally ignored for a cliched running around in a dark facility while a monster chases you type B-Movie.

Its like they had a really ambitious and complex X-Files type conspiracy thriller for the first draft, that by the final draft just turned into an Event Horizon/Hollow Man type science fiction horror, but less entertaining. What a waste.

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yeah really? There's actually no explanation/theories why it just was dropped part way through? Confusing...

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Like the missing security guard, and the missing dog and the engagement ring that just...uh...vanished wihout consequence or a second thought.

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No kidding. This script is one of the most poorly-researched and lazy pieces of writing I have seen in along time, assuming of course that the director/editor/producers didn't butcher the final cut.

Just awful.

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I actually thought the traitor was Clay. *spoiler* he was the most upset about the project, especially after being terrorized by the dog. He tried to convince them to put the dog down, and was mad that Frank want listening about the brain activity. Unfortunately, I couldn't confirm my theory because they all died.

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I just watched this on Netflix, and this was the one thing that really made the movie interesting for me. But it seriously left all of this out of the resolution. I figured that the dummy email account was going to reveal that the company knew what they had been doing there all along, and that (more importantly) they knew what was going on in there NOW.

I figured either the company would end up working for the church and would be confiscating the serum so demons couldn't be brought back, or they were just gonna watch to see what the serum did Umbrella style, and we'd find out they were also evil or something near the end of the film.

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I wouldn't mind a sequel to cover this aspect. The movie did well at the box office. I hope they do a sequel.

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This is the very reason I'm trawling the message boards. I thought j missed something!

Basically though it went like this.

1. There's this big conspiracy.
2. That guy died. That was cool. Let's just kill everyone.
3. Oops we ran out of time. But those killings were cool, huh?

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